LONDON (MarketWatch) — Shares of Conwert Immobilien Invest SE climbed 8% Monday after Germany’s Deutsche Wohnen AG said it’s planning a takeover of the Austrian real-estate company in a deal that could be worth 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion). Deutsche Wohnen in a statement said it plans to pay a tender price of €11.50 in cash for each Conwert share, which Deutsche Wohnen said represents about a 21.5% premium over the volume-weighted average price over the past six months. Deutsche Wohnen shares slipped 0.3% on Monday.

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Japan stocks rose in early Monday trading, shrugging off economic growth data that missed expectations, as strength among financial shares helped carry the market higher. The Nikkei Stock Average rose 0.8% to 18,053, hitting a fresh seven-year high (though it would still need to surpass 20,000 to break its record for the current millennium), while the Topix added 1%. October-December economic growth was 0.6% for the quarter, pulling the economy out of recession but still below the 0.9% growth tipped by a Wall Street Journal poll. The yen briefly rose after the data but soon eased back to its level ahead of the numbers, with the dollar at ¥118.73, just slightly lower than its ¥118.94 on Friday. The big tech and industrial names were mixed, with Sony Corp. up 1.2% and Komatsu Ltd. up 1.3%, while Hitachi Ltd. lost 0.7%, and TDK Corp. fell 0.5%. But financials were solidly higher, with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. enjoying a 2.7% improvement as its banking unit became the first Japanese lender approved to offer special “free-trade” accounts at China’s Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, facilitating cross-border trans-currency banking, the Nikkei reported. Other gainers in the sector included Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (up 2.6%), Nomura Holdings Inc. (up 3%), Shinsei Bank Ltd. (up 2.7%) and Credit Saison Co. (up 3.4%). Meanwhile, robot maker Fanuc Corp. rallied 4.3% after confirming a Nikkei news report saying it planned to invest about $1.1 billion in Japanese production and research facilities. The bounce in oil since Friday helped energy shares, as Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. rose 2.3%, and Inpex Corp. added 1.7%, though some utilities pulled back, with Hokkaido Electric Power Co. and Chubu Electric Power Co. down 1% each, and Tokyo Electric Power Co. slipping 0.2%.

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Japan managed to pull out of recession in the last quarter of last year, data out Monday morning showed, though the growth proved to be less than what many economists has suspected. The first read of Japan’s gross domestic product for the October-December period indicated growth at a 2.2% annualized rate, or 0.6% on a quarterly basis, below the 0.9% consensus expectation reported in a Wall Street Journal survey. Likewise, the deflator for the quarter rose to 2.3% compared to 2.0% in July-September. The yen rose modestly after the data release, with the U.S. dollar slipping to ¥118.62, down from ¥118.72 a minute before the numbers came out. Nikkei Average futures had trimmed their gains in reaction to the report, but the cash market opened higher than indicated, with a 0.6% rise for the benchmark index.

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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Australian stocks meandered along the break-even mark early Monday, kicking off what may be a subdued a week, given holidays in the U.S. and China. The S&P/ASX 200 was little changed about a half an hour into trade, seemingly resting after the index’s 2.3% rally on Friday. An improvement for hard-hit iron-ore prices sparked sharp gains for the sector, with Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. up 4.3%, BC Iron Ltd. up 3.4%, and Atlas Iron Ltd. surging more than 10%. Among the senior miners, BHP Billiton Ltd. rose 1.8%, and Rio Tinto Ltd. added 1.5%, even as the Australian Financial Review reported that top customer China had lifted a ban on the pair’s biggest rival, Vale SA of Brazil, that had prevented it from docking at Chinese ports, “a decision which could see Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton displaced as the lowest cost producers of the key steel-making commodity.” But banks offered a drag on the market, with National Australia Bank Ltd. down 0.5%, Macquarie Group Ltd. down 1.1%, and smaller rural lender Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Ltd. falling 2.6% afer posting a strong increase in first-half profit but also saying that a deleveraging trend in the mortgage market, with homeowners increasingly paying down debt, had affected Bendigo’s growth. Australia & New Zealand Banking Group edged 0.2% lower after briefly trading higher following an announcement of a new chief executive for its Australian operations. Back on the earnings front, freight-rail operator Aurizon Holdings Ltd. rose 0.3% after reporting a fiscal first-half profit almost three times larger than what it saw a year earlier. Also among the notable movers, Goodman Fielder Ltd. rose 4.7% after Chinese regulators reportedly approved the pending buyout of the food producer. Meanwhile, the week ahead was studded with holidays, including a Monday closure in the U.S. for President’s Day, and several days off at the end of the week for Chinese markets, due to the Lunar New Year.

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The $70 billion online food ordering industry is on the cusp of taking its next evolutionary leap beyond simply helping college kids and urbanites order food by moving into the suburbs, broadening their merchant base and becoming involved in the delivery phase of the business.
This week’s purchase by Yelp
of Eat24, which adds a food ordering element to Yelp’s reviews, falls in line behind recent changes at Delivery.com and GrubHub
with the former expanding into liquor, groceries and laundry ordering and the latter adding a delivery capability. The next target on the horizon for some of these companies is the suburbs, increasing the number of restaurants using online ordering and possibly adding national retailers to their merchant list.
Jed Kleckner, CEO of Delivery.com, said the company’s primary customers remain in cities and around colleges, but as merchants and customers in other areas become more tech savvy and grasp online ordering the company has to take a look at how to service these people.
“We are now seeing these services start to appear outside urban areas in suburbia,” Kleckner said, adding it is only natural also make the move out of the city.
GrubHub is also keeping an eye on the other side of the city line.
“We think the model works almost everywhere there are multiple choices for takeout. As awareness increases and we add more restaurants outside of the city centers, we anticipate that adoption within suburban markets will grow — both on the restaurant and diner side,” said Adam DeWitt, GrubHub CFO.
Kleckner describes Delivery.com as an aggregator of consumer demand and a lead generation platform so it can easily add new categories and areas of operation. He pointed to several scenarios on how Delivery.com could become more heavily involved with suburban merchants both inside and outside online food ordering category. The first being through the company’s current online tool, but he also sees an opportunity that integrates a merchant’s Web site with Delivery.com’s capability making the store’s site that much more powerful.
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Next, Kleckner believes there could be a chance to work with national retailers saying the chain stores will become local distribution points for items ordered with Delivery.com.
For its part GrubHub is not interested in branching out from its core business, but it is in the process of refining its product.
“We are getting into delivery because we believe it will allow us to provide a best-in-class diner experience and let us offer our diners restaurants that don’t provide their own delivery services,” he said.
Even without adding new product categories the companies said there is a great deal of room to grow just within the online food business. Kleckner and DeWitt agree that the less than 10% of all takeout food is ordered online, with DeWitt pegging it at around 5%.
“We remain focused on capturing the remaining 95% and opportunities for growing the $70 b[illion] by making takeout better,” DeWitt said.
He said this will be accomplished, in part, through improving its business process and by more restaurants realizing the need to have an online ordering component.
“It is hard to imagine a world 10 years from now with anyone ordering takeout by dialing a phone and reading from a paper menu. If restaurateurs want to access the extremely large and profitable takeout market, they will likely have to have some type of online and mobile presence,” DeWitt said.
The impact on a restaurant’s business can be dramatic said Chris Hickey, regional director NYC for the New York State Restaurant Association.
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While it [online ordering] is not right for every restaurant if the restaurant has the right model in operation it can be very lucrative,” he said.
Delivery.com has also found an interesting tipping point that spurs a merchant’s desire to become even more involved with the company.
“We have found then when 10% of their business is driven by online ordering they then come to us and ask how it [online ordering] can do more for them,” Kleckner said.
Bringing more retailers into the fold is only part of the challenge facing these companies. The other task for Kleckner and DeWitt is increasing their user base. This will happen organically as youngsters who have grown up using smartphone will natural look to their device to shop, Kleckner said.
Sometimes just getting them to try it for the first time is the trick. Brand awareness and getting people to understand how much better it is to order through GrubHub than utilizing the paper menu and phone. Our track record of keeping diners coming back once they try the platform is very strong, but our challenge is getting them “over the hump”.
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TheStreet Ratings team rates YELP INC as a Hold with a ratings score of C. TheStreet Ratings Team has this to say about their recommendation:

“We rate YELP INC (YELP) a HOLD. The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed ? some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks. The company’s strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself and premium valuation.”

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Here are some of the hot stocks Jim Cramer talked about on Friday’s Mad Money on CNBC:
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Actavis
: Cramer said this company should deliver a true upside surprise when it reports earnings next week, and should be bought ahead of the news.

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Priceline
: The travel sector is heating up and Cramer said Priceline should be bought on its typical gap lower immediately after the company reports but before the conference call begins.

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Clorox
: There was a clear winner in the consumer packaged-goods space this quarter and that winner was Clorox.

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Hain Celestial
and WhiteWave Foods
: Cramer said healthy and organic foods continue to rule the day and these two companies continue to lead the way.

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Novavax
: Cramer said this vaccine maker’s story is both exciting and life-saving.
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— Written by Scott Rutt in Washington, D.C.
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